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My Friend Oscar

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My Friend Oscar
Directed by
Written by
Starring
CinematographyNikolai Toporkoff
Edited byAndrée Danis
Music bySune Waldimir
Production
company
Terrafilm
Distributed byNordisk Tonefilm
Release date
  • 20 January 1951 (1951-01-20)
Running time
85 minutes
CountrySweden
LanguageSwedish

My Friend Oscar (Swedish: Min vän Oscar) is a 1951 Swedish comedy film directed by Pierre Billon and Åke Ohberg and starring Åke Söderblom, Margareta Fahlén and Olof Winnerstrand.[1] A separate French-language version My Seal and Them was also produced.

It was shot at the Photosonor Studios in Courbevoie on the outskirts of Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director René Moulaert.

Synopsis

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While on a trip to Paris a young Swedish man wins Oscar, a seal, in a raffle who proceeds to cause chaos in his life.

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ Qvist & Von Bagh p.111

Bibliography

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  • Qvist, Per Olov & von Bagh, Peter. Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.
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